Police: Three upstate NY girls beat woman for 'fun'

NEW WINDSOR, N.Y. (AP) -- Authorities say three girls told police they beat up a 34-year-old woman at a Hudson Valley school bus stop just for the fun of it.

Police in the Orange County town of New Windsor tell the Times Herald-Record of Middletown that two 13-year-olds and a 12-year-old girl chose their victim at random. Officials say the woman was putting her child on a school bus Tuesday morning when she was attacked along Route 9W outside Newburgh, 60 miles north of New York City.

Police say the girls repeatedly punched and kicked the woman and pulled her hair. The beating left the woman with cuts, bruises and head injuries.

The girls were charged with gang assault and turned over to their parents pending appearances in Family Court.